-Hindustan Times Seema Kulkarni of the Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (Soppecom), Pune speaks about supporting 500 single and widowed women who do not have ration cards or bank accounts, access food supplies * What is the situation of agricultural village economy in Maharashtra after the lockdown? Maharashtra has been facing an agrarian crisis for some time now. Post-Covid-19 and the lockdown the situation has only worsened. Harvesting operations have come to...
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How WhatsApp forwards on coronavirus broke the ₹1 tn Indian PoUltry industry -Omkar Khandekar
-Livemint.com Fake news linking the spread of Covid-19 to chickens have cost the Indian PoUltry market over ₹1.6 billion a day. The world’s fourth biggest chicken producer now faces its worst crisis in a decade In the first week of February, Somnath Shelke, a PoUltry farmer in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar, started receiving text messages on WhatsApp that baffled him. “Broiler chicken me korona virus ko paya gaya hai," one of them said. “Tamam logo...
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-The Telegraph PoUltry business dithering, seed supply may hit kharif season A week is a long period in the time of pandemics. Around Holi, India was besotted with other issues, including New Delhi’s insinuated communal riots and the Madhya Pradesh political crisis. Late last week, finally, Covid-19 drew full attention of the authorities as it rightfully deserves. While these are still early days in India and the number of Covid-19-infected people is a...
More »Chickening out: Coronavirus pushes Indian PoUltry industry to its worst crisis -Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express The Indian PoUltry industry is going through its worst crisis, this time from unsubstantiated fears linking the spread of COVID-19 to chicken consumption. Urja Foods and Agro’s hatchery unit spread over 10 acres in Gawadewadi village of Pune district’s Ambegaon taluka wears a deserted look. Not surprising at all, when its production of day-old chicks was 5.4 lakh in February but is unlikely to cross 2 lakh this month....
More »Cyclone Bulbul wreaks havoc in West Bengal, at least 10 killed and 2.73 lakh families affected
-Scroll.in Disaster Management Minister Javed Khan said that at least 2,473 houses were destroyed because of the cyclone. At least ten people were killed and 2.73 lakh families were affected in West Bengal as cyclone Bulbul PoUnded coastal areas of the state on Saturday, PTI reported. Five people were killed in separate incidents in North Parganas district, and one person died in Basirhat city when a tree fell on him, while another man...
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